Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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